Nakul Patel

Head of Growth Asia Pacific, Facebook at Work, Facebook Singapore

Nakul Patel leads the Facebook at Work Growth Team for India and South Asia as well as several other markets across Asia Pacific. Before his current role he led the business developments and partnerships teams for several other Facebook Platform products, based at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park. Nakul joined Facebook via the acquisition of mBaaS startup Parse.com in 2013. Before Parse, Nakul spent 5 years at Google in a number of sales and sales management roles in Beijing, Tokyo, Austin and Ann Arbor.

Aamir Ibrahim

CEO, Mobilink and Warid

Aamir Ibrahim, joined Mobilink in June 2015. His last assignment was Senior Vice President for Telenor Group, he has performed on various leadership roles with Telenor, Mobilink, Ford Motor Company, Jaguar & Land Rover.

Having more than 22 years of overall experience, Aamir is one of the pioneer employees of Mobilink.

Aamir holds a top notch MBA from IMD in Switzerland and AMP (Advanced Management Program) from Harvard Business School, and has an international mind-set having lived and worked in diverse cultural settings which include Thailand, Pakistan, UK, UAE, Switzerland and the USA.

Adnan Shahid

CCO , PTCL

Adnan Shahid is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL), Pakistan's largest ICT and Broadband company. Over his 20 years of professional career, Adnan has held technology, marketing, and strategy leadership positions in different industry verticals. He also founded two companies. In his current role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, he is responsible for Voice, broadband and multimedia business of PTCL including new product design, customer care and experience management and marketing communications.

Adnan is an Electrical Engineer from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan and holds an MBA degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA in Innovation and Global Leadership. He also holds the distinction of being a Legatum Fellow - MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship is the leading center for supporting entrepreneurial ventures in developing economies.

Raza Matin

Marketing & Business Consultant Pakistan, Google

Raza Matin is the Marketing & Business Consultant for Pakistan and in conjunction with the remote team, is responsible for sales, business and eco-system development in the region. Raza is focused upon driving connectedness and innovation through increases in digital adoption and awareness amongst consumers, businesses and the development of a vibrant start-up ecosystem.

Prior to Google, Raza worked with large enterprises in the region as a management consultant, focusing on process automation, program and change management. A unapologetic serial entrepreneur, Raza has been previously involved in domestic startups in healthcare, retail and technology space.

Raza holds an Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Queen's University

OUR SPEAKERS

Explore innovative ideas and spirited talks from a diverse group of visionaries and thought leaders.

Omer Moeen

Director Strategy, Payments & Product Development, EasyPaisa

Omar has been part of the core Mobile Financial Services team at Telenor since before launch in 2009. He designed and deployed the Easypaisa OTC and e- Wallet businesses, the first Mobile Money service in Pakistan, and was involved in developing and managing the distribution channels, as well as having the main responsibility of interacting with the Telco and Banking Regulator on the Regulations for Branchless Banking.

As the head of Strategy and Projects for Easypaisa, Omar is responsible for developing and driving the strategy plans for the Easypaisa business and heading key strategic projects. He is also responsible for developing the Mobile Money financial eco-system in Pakistan through strategic partnerships. Prior to his 5 years of experience in Mobile Financial Services, Omar headed the GSM Value Added Services Products unit at Telenor. He has also worked with Teradata and has experience in Advanced Analytics with Data Warehouses for Cellular Telcoms and Banks in the MEA region.

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Omar also has 3 years of experience in working as a Software Engineer with different organizations in the States including IBM. He also holds a MBA degree from the LUMS, Pakistan.

Usman Dastagir

Head of IOT, Telenor

Mr. Usman Dastagir is Head of Telenor’s IOT business unit with an aggressive plan to change the way Internet Of Things is approached locally and in region. Before this he was serving in leadership positions in Telenor Montenegro and Telenor Hungary. Usman is passionate about empowering Pakistani businesses by lowering barriers for digital technology adoption, enabling efficiencies in multiple value chains.

Qasif Shahid

CEO, FinSurgents

FinSurgents is a financial services startup consultancy firm with specialization in re-tooling ‘analogue business cases to digital ones’. The firm currently has clients in Pakistan, UAE and Africa.

Qasif previously served as the head of Digital Banking for MCB, one of the largest and most profitable banks in Pakistan. Before that he was the head of Marketing and Alternative channels for ABN AMRO bank Singapore where in addition to being the custodian of the brand, he was also responsible for managing and building electronic channels including the Call Center, Internet Banking, Mobile Commerce and other non-branch customer touch-points. Before his four-year stint in Singapore, Qasif served in different product, channel and marketing related roles in ABN AMRO Pakistan for five years.

Before joining MCB, Qasif worked at Standard Chartered Pakistan for a period of four years. He initially headed Alternative Channels and the Marketing function and later on served as the General Manager Front-line Experience.

Asghar Jameel

Chief HR Officer, Mobilink

Asghar Jameel is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Mobilink. He held several roles in Middle East and Africa region as well as a global Business HR Head in one of worlds extremely innovative and technologically progressive organizations i.e. Nokia and Ericsson . His passion is to transform HR to align it with the future business models. He lead an internal study “HR in 2025” to understand changing external and internal business environment and its impact on HR function. He is spearheading transformation and digitalization of HR at Mobilink as part of their overall Digitalization journey.

He loves to volunteer for social projects in free time and manages his Facebook page that focuses on promoting optimism about Pakistan, a cause he initiated during his stay abroad. His interests include cycling, hiking and team sports.

Anusha Rahman

Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Govt of Pakistan

Muhammad Talha

Director HR, Confiz

Digital is poised to radically disrupt HR and redefine the future of the human resources function in the next decade. HR, talent processes and the technology that enables them will no longer be primarily performed by a central HR function. Rather, many aspects of it will become fully embedded in how work gets done, thereby becoming an everyday part of doing business.

Muhammad Talha, Director HR, Confiz will join us as a panelist on 24-25 August 2016 at Movenpick Hotel, Karachi.
Muhammad Talha holds the position of Director HR at Confiz, In the digital world, Confiz has been credited globally by fortune 500 companies to introduce world class innovative solutions. Radically innovative and forward looking HR practices truly define how the organization innovates everyday. Talha will be sharing how Confiz is scaling its culture of exceptional innovation globally.

Talha comes with an extremely diverse background primarily in the disciplines of Human Resources, Organizational Transformation, Technology-based Products, Startup Acceleration and Media. Converging a diverse set of skills into Human Resources, he’s involved in radically transforming the way HR approaches conventional challenges and has generated not just innovative solutions but also exceptional business results. He is a professional musician, cofounded famous rock bands called Irtaash and Qayyas, sound recording engineer, avid hiker, and photographer.

Dr Umar Saif

Chairman PITB

Faisal Sheikh

General Manager MHL Global

Jaikishan Rajararam

Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, GSMA

Khawaja Tanveer Saleem

CIO Engro Corp

Khurram Jamali

Country Lead Asian Emerging Markets, Google

Nadeem Hussain

Founder & Coach Planet-N Group

Imtiaz Noor

Independent Digital Consultant

Junaid Iqbal

CEO Careem Pakistan

Sohail Zindani

CEO Learning Minds

Ali Fahd

CEO Wi-tribe

Amaar Ikhals

Head of Branchless Banking, Bank Al Falah

Peter Lucas

Director Online & OOH Solutions

Dr Jonathan Doerr

Co-CEO Daraz Group

Dr Jonathan Doerr is the co-CEO of Daraz Group, the leading ecommerce mall for 500 million people in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. Within a year of joining Daraz as Co-CEO, Dr Doerr successfully secured $55 million funding in the first investment round. A few months later, he drove the Daraz and Kaymu merger, becoming the co-CEO of Daraz Group and expanding operations from three countries to five.

Dr Doerr has a Master’s Degree and PhD in Business Administration from the Munich School of Management (LMU) in Germany. Before joining Daraz, he was the Managing Director/Co-Founder of Jumia Nigeria, the largest online retail store in the country. Prior to that, he worked in the graphic design and web design company, Wellenmacher, based in Germany where he was the Founder and CEO. Dr Doerr also worked as a Consultant – Corporate Strategy and Development with Otto Group, the world’s largest mail order company and currently one of the biggest e-commerce companies, mainly based in Germany and France but operating in more than 20 countries.

Mudassir Aqil

CEO FINCA Microfinance Bank

Dr Jonathan Doerr is the co-CEO of Daraz Group, the leading ecommerce mall for 500 million people in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. Within a year of joining Daraz as Co-CEO, Dr Doerr successfully secured $55 million funding in the first investment round. A few months later, he drove the Daraz and Kaymu merger, becoming the co-CEO of Daraz Group and expanding operations from three countries to five.

Dr Doerr has a Master’s Degree and PhD in Business Administration from the Munich School of Management (LMU) in Germany. Before joining Daraz, he was the Managing Director/Co-Founder of Jumia Nigeria, the largest online retail store in the country. Prior to that, he worked in the graphic design and web design company, Wellenmacher, based in Germany where he was the Founder and CEO. Dr Doerr also worked as a Consultant – Corporate Strategy and Development with Otto Group, the world’s largest mail order company and currently one of the biggest e-commerce companies, mainly based in Germany and France but operating in more than 20 countries.

Wali Zahid

CEO Skill City

Wali is a futurist, disruptor and is considered an Asian authority on workplace effectiveness. He is CEO of SkillCity [Asian answers to Asian Questions]. A native of Pakistan, he travels frequently in the South Asia and GCC regions to train and coach senior executives.

With the insight of original thought leaders, Wali has trained thousands of business leaders in over 25 years from Fortune-500 companies.

Wali's signature workshops include Leadership for CEOs, Women in Leadership, Leadership Readiness, Executive Derailmentand Train The Trainer (TTT). TTT is in its 16th year, with over 1,000 trainers trained in 16+ Asian locations.
An accredited profiler from Team Management Systems (TMS), Australia, Wali is authorized to use online TMP psychometric instrument for superior leader performance.
Before he set up SkillCity, Wali was Country Director, Management Development Services at British Council Pakistan for seven years.

He has been member of UK's Institute of Directors, Chartered Management Institute, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and American Management Association.

Wali has also been Team Leader of Prime Minister Quality Award (based on Baldrige Excellence Framework, USA) in Pakistan. He has been at BoG of Pakistan Society for Training & Development (PSTD) and now is at the BoG of Pakistan Institute of Management (PIM).